USN-5373-1: Django vulnerabilities

11 April 2022

Several security issues were fixed in Django.

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It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain certain column
aliases in the QuerySet.annotate(), aggregate(), and extra() methods. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform an SQL injection
attack. (CVE-2022-28346)

It was discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain option names in
the QuerySet.explain() method. A remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to perform an SQL injection attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu
20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 21.10. (CVE-2022-28347)

It was discovered that the Django URLValidator function incorrectly handled
newlines and tabs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to
perform a header injection attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04
LTS. (CVE-2021-32052)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 21.10
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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